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It’s Dynamic! Boogie Woogie Oogie

Interviews progress – it’s a tale of reading and acting, reading and reacting. Five of the tips from Fred Ball that I liked [thanks, BNET]:

• Come prepared knowing your concrete achievements (quantifiable or not… e.g. “trophy wife”)
• Dress for success and enter with a mindset of respect
• Talk about what the interviewer wants to know, not what you want to talk about

• Start by establishing the relationship and doing it their way, then ask the questions to take it your way (and learn how to know when to change tack)
• @ T=0, they are the buyer and you are the seller. After some point, @ T=1, you are the buyer and they are the seller. Winning them over @ T=0 gives you more leverage at T=1.

Saving the World, One Outrageous Idea at a Time

At one International Institutions lecture I attended years ago (ten!? oh my goodness!!), the professor was professing the woes of government.

Corruption, according to one academic paper,  stemmed partly from losing all the talent to the private sector (the implications are clear and need not be articulated here). This is apparently due to a bad incentive structure (yes, it’s intuitive). Intuition backed by scholarly work.

Recently, a well-known SCHOLAR (initials TV) wrote a refreshing letter to the FT editor about how to fix the public servant incentive structure. Variable pay will cure the world’s woes. This delightfully-written piece is here [thanks, HM!].

Have I Finally Found My Roots?

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration on the Dignity of Man. Lovely little volume. Upon Wikipedia’ing him today to refresh my poor memory on the orthography of his name, I rediscovered the word “syncretism” [thanks, Comparative Mythology!] and discovered that the term did not, as I had thought, only apply to fusing religions. Here’s the article on syncretism.

Is there an association of, if I may say, syncretists?

Oh! My people! Is it possible that I have found you at last?

Let me Google this and find out.

On another note, I wonder if the Urban Dictioary’s been updated to include verb forms of the proper nouns Google, Wikipedia and Facebook (fully conjugable, even!). (It’s my blog, I’ll turn this noun into an adjective if I want to.)

Credits [or, The Pop Culture that has Shaped Me] (In order of appearance)

• “Electric Boogie”, Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingston)
• The Pink Panther (I think)
• “It’s My Party”, Lesley Gore

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